FA L L 2 0 2 2 | 5 1 N O T E S living in Bucks County, with her husband and two children, and two sons inMaryland. Each of our sons has a daughter. The younger one, Karl, has a B.S. and anM.S. in industrial engineering from Lehigh.” Fred has six other relatives who are Lehigh alumni and is hoping that at least one of his four grandchildren will choose Lehigh when the time comes. Stephanie Fisher of the Lehigh Alumni Relations team wrote an apologetic note to Fred of the grave mistake the records team had made. By the time you read this, Fred will be fully resurrected from the afterlife. Following the Reunion, Charles Miller and his wife, Lynne, continued south to visit the Shenandoah battlefelds and lovely countryside. They visited fve historic Civil War sites, a museum or two and sawmany interesting Civil War artifacts. For Charles, Fisher’s Hill is the most memorable site. He saw where his “great-grandad’s (also 1st Sgt. Charles Miller) 15th NJ Vols. charged over Tumbling Run as part of Wheaton’s I Div. VI Corps assault on Early’s hilltop defenses.” Charles recently learned from “History of the 15th NJ Reg’t” that his grandfather was wounded in the arm on Sept. 21, 1864. I have about 35 pages of long emails and notes from classmates. Notes are too long to put the details in the column, including expanded notes on TAK, Fred Snyder, Charles Miller and Lehigh wrestling. Might be of interest to TAK/ TEP brothers, Beta brothers, wrestlers from ’64 to ’67, or just anyone. If anyone is interested in these, I will be glad to attach the single 35-page document. Just email me for a copy. ’68GeorgeKlacik, 27 Oak Forest Lane, Summit, NJ 07901, gklacikjr@aol.com, (908) 273-7850. Thank you for responding to the Annual Giving Day letter sent in April. We came in tied for third, based on the percentage of our classmates who made a donation. The Class of 1967 came in frst, but they were a reunion year class. I amwriting this in July, and it will not be published until December, which explains the delay in passing on the results. More important for this column, three guys sent emails in response to the giving letter. Ted Hoppock wrote that he was drafted after graduation and then went to law school at Georgetown. He spent 30-plus years handling consumer protection litigation for the Federal Trade Commission. He married, had three kids who became a high school social studies teacher, a lawyer and a video producer. Ted is also the proud grandfather of fve, between the ages of 5 and 10. Larry Hans wrote that he and his wife, Laura, were married fve days after graduation. He then served four years in the Navy. Larry started work in sales with Sterling Drug and worked his way into operations management in its Manhattan headqarters. When Bayer AG acquired Sterling in 1995, he was able to continue in operations management until his retirement in 2011, after 39 years. He noted that the acquisition allowed Bayer to regain the right to market Bayer Aspirin in the U.S., which it had lost as a result of spoils of WWI. Larry saw Milt Grannatt at a pre-pandemic Lehigh-Lafayette game and had lunch a while back with Terry Hart, his Dravo dormmate. He meets with his Sigma Phi brothers three or four times a year for LU football games and wrestling matches. He runs local 5Ks with LU cross country teammate Paul Lucuski ’67. Larry and Laura retired to a 55-plus retirement community near Princeton, where he served on the community HOA Board, six years as president. Their three children live nearby. They have three grandchildren. Donald Peterson wrote that one of his signifcant achievements was his return from Vietnam on Aug. 22, 1970. He wrote, “I was an Army Corps of Engineers 1Lt assigned as the construction ofcer for Delta Company of the 36th Engineer Battalion. I was stationed in Vinh Long Province in the Mekong Delta fromAugust 1969 to August 1970. Co. D worked on the rebuilding and repaving of a major segment of the national highway between Saigon and the cities and towns in the Mekong Delta. While the title would indicate some civil engineering skills were required, the job mostly revolved around coordinating people, equipment and supplies with the other units in the battalion and keeping track of man hours and job progress, for which my B.S. in management was useful. “Since retiring fromGeneral Electric, I have stayed busy serving two fve-year terms on the Town of Fairfeld (Conn.) Economic Development Commission, remain an active member of the Town of Fairfeld Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and serve as commander of the local squadron of the United States Power Squadrons, a national safe boating organization.” I am inMaine fipping through a book onMoxie, a soda-type beverage popular up here. Perhaps Lehigh should require each student to drink a can a day since it cures anything caused by nervous exhaustion, stops the appetite for intoxicants, stops insanity, blindness from overtaxing, paralysis and loss of manhood from excesses. Makes you able to stand twice the usual amount of labor with less fatigue.Wonder if it grows hair. Our 55th reunion is June 8-11, 2023. Send me an email and let me know if you are coming. Call a classmate and get him to come back with you. If you are not coming, send me a note and tell me why. Waiting for our 60th is not a good idea. I knowmy knees may not hold up that long. MMXXII ’69A. Raymond Schmalz, 325 Lowell Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941-3845. (415) 388-3263 (H), (415) 317-0923 (C); rayschmalz@aol.com. David S. Kiefer wrote with the sad news that Richard J. Cromie passed away at his home in Sparks, Nev., last March. Dave and Dick were fraternity brothers in the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. Dick grew up in Andover, Mass., and was a graduate of Phillips Academy. He was in the Arts/IE program. He started his career with theWestinghouse Corporation in Bloomington, Ind., and thenmoved to Los Angeles to work in the innovation engineering section at Pacifc Gas and Electric before retiring andmoving to Nevada. He and Marcia Anderson weremarried in 1973. They have two sons, Mike and Scott. Dave is almost retired and living in the Denver area. He consults for the Parsons Corp. He enjoys driving through the AmericanWest. He just fnished hiking through Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks. ’70Denny Diehl, 28 Chancery Court, Millville, NJ 08332. (610) 698-7136; dennydiehl@aol.com A diferent column, as I’ll mostly list the amiable ’70ers whomade our 50th a highly enjoyable weekend: Robert Burton, Skip Cavagnaro, James D’Agostino, Ron Dankowski, Houston Day, me (DD), Wilson Dorward, Dewey Duchynski, Gene Dykes, Steven Ernst, Don For-
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